News

April 2025: Our manuscript, Fabrication of Low-Cost, High-Resolution Open Capillary Microfluidics towards Self-Sustaining, Long-Term Hydration of Engineered Living Materials, was published in Progress in Additive Manufacturing.

April 2025: Willow Chernoske completed their rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student advancing our portfolio of enzyme activity assays for therapeutic drug monitoring. Welcome Willow!
February 2025: Our manuscript, Rapid enzymatic assay for antiretroviral drug monitoring using CRISPR-Cas12a enabled readout, was published in the Diagnostics special issue of ACS Synthetic Biology.

January 2025: Willow Chernoske joined our lab as a PhD student working on therapeutic drug monitoring among transplant recipients.
January 2025: Dorothy Mims has completed her rotation and joined our lab as a PhD student working on point-of-care tests for HIV drug resistance screening. Welcome Dot!
January 2025: Sarina Barnes and George Tang joined our lab as Master’s of Applied Bioengineering students doing research in the lab. Welcome to the team!
October 2024: We went to MicroTAS 2024 in Montreal! Aileen Sun , Carrie Lin , Cosette Craig, and Kelsey Leong all presented posters. Kelsey was also one of the facilitators of the Frugal Diagnostics: Science Equity for Global Health workshop.

Left to Right: Ayo, Aileen, Megan, Carrie, Cosette, and Kelsey meet Chip the koala, the mascot for MicroTAS 2025.

Left to Right: Ayo, Aileen, Megan, Carrie, Cosette, and Kelsey meet Chip the koala, the mascot for MicroTAS 2025.

Kelsey stands by her poster on CandyCollect: Open-to-Closed (O2C) Microfluidic System for Rapid and User-Center Detection of Group A Streptococcus

October 2024: Cara Brainerd defended her PhD thesis: Towards Rapid Measurement of Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in a Portable, Low-Cost Platform We were blown away by her storytelling and data on technology that could have real-world impact in HIV treatment and prevention. Congratulations Cara! This is a big milestone for you and the lab! 🎉

October 2024: Our manuscript, Democratizing Access to Microfluidics: Rapid Prototyping of Open Microchannels with Low-Cost LCD 3D Printers, was published in ACS Omega. Congratulations to Kelsey Leong and all our co-authors.

October 2024: Our manuscript, REverse transcriptase ACTivity (REACT) assay for point-of-care measurement of established and emerging antiretrovirals for HIV treatment and prevention, was published in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) and featured in “ABC Highlights: authored by Rising Stars & Top Experts”. Congratulations to Cara Brainerd and all our co-authors and collaborators.